Stocks Fall, Ending Five-Week Winning Streak

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Friday, finishing the week down 247.87 points to 11983.24 and ending a five-week winning streak. Stocks slipped 61.23 points on Friday.

Dow Jones Industrial Average

  • Down 247.87 points this week, or 2.03%, to 11983.24
  • This week’s loss snaps a five-week winning streak.
  • Worst week since the week period ending on September 23, 2011.
  • Today: DJIA, down 61.23 points, or 0.51%.
  • First loss in three trading days.
  • An intraday high of 12043.49 occurred at t 09:30:02 today.
  • An intraday low of 11850.31 occurred at 10:39:16 today, representing a decrease of 194.16, or 1.61%.
  • Five of the 30 component stocks rose, 25 fell
  • Today's five contributors to The Dow's movement and their point contribution: MCD (6.13), CVX (2.27), HPQ (0.98), WMT (0.61), AA (0.45).
  • Today's bottom five laggards: IBM (-6.96), KO (-6.58), UTX (-4.84), KFT (-4.54), MRK (-3.86).
  • Traded in negative territory for 100 percent of the day.
  • Down 15.40% from its record close of 14164.53 on October 09, 2007.
  • Rose 4.71% from 52 weeks ago.
  • Down 6.46% from its 52 week high of 12810.54 on April 29, 2011.
  • Up 12.46% from its 52 week low of 10655.30 on October 03, 2011.
  • Month-to-date: up 0.24%.
  • Year-to-date: up 3.50%.

Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DOW JONES WILSHIRE 5000)

  • Dow Jones U.S .Total Stock Market Index, 13028.62 (prelim)*, down 305.63 points this week, or 2.29%.
  • This week’s drop snaps a four-week winning streak.
  • Worst week since the week period ending on September 23, 2011.
  • Today: Dow Jones U.S .Total Stock Market Index, down 70.98 points, or 0.54%, or approximately $82.8 billion in market capitalization.
  • Down four of the past six trading days.
  • Down 2716.77 points, or 17.25% (approximately $3.9 trillion in market cap), from its record close of 15745.39 on October 9, 2007.
  • Up 91.60% (approximately $7.3 trillion in market cap), from the 12-½ year closing low of 6800.08 on March 9, 2009.
  • Rose 2.45% from 52 weeks ago.
  • Down 8.94% from its 52 week high of 14308.37 on April 29, 2011.
  • Up 15.31% from its 52 week low of 11299.07 on October 03, 2011.
  • Month-to-date: up 0.18%.
  • Year-to-date: down 0.78%, or $196 billion in market cap.

*The index values for the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index are in price return and float-adjusted. Full market capitalization will continue to be used in this factoid.

Data courtesy of Dow Jones Indexes

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